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Ansarullah

Ansarullah

A Zaidi Shiite movement operating in Yemen. It seeks to establish a democratic government in Yemen.
Shiite

Shiite

represents the second largest denomination of Islam. Shiites believe Ali (peace be upon him) to be prophet"s successor in the Caliphate.
Resistance

Resistance

Axis of Resistances refers to countries and movements with common political goal, i.e., resisting against Zionist regime, America and other western powers. Iran, Syria, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Hamas in Palestine are considered as the Axis of Resistance.
Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

Persian Gulf Cooperation Council

A regional political u n i o n consisting of Arab states of the Persian Gulf, except for Iraq.
Taliban

Taliban

Taliban is a Sunni fundamentalist movement in Afghanistan. It was founded by Mohammed Omar in 1994.
  Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism & Extremism

Wahhabism is an extremist pseudo-Sunni movement, which labels non-Wahhabi Muslims as apostates thus paving the way for their bloodshed.
Kurds

Kurds

Kurds are an ethnic group in the Middle East, mostly inhabiting a region, which spans adjacent parts of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. They are an Iranian people and speak the Kurdish languages, which form a subgroup of the Northwestern Iranian branch of Iranian languages.
NATO

NATO

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949.
Islamic Awakening

Islamic Awakening

Refers to a revival of the Islam throughout the world, that began in 1979 by Iranian Revolution that established an Islamic republic.
Al-Qaeda

Al-Qaeda

A militant Sunni organization founded by Osama bin Laden at some point between 1988 and 1989
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Unwelcome Guest of White House: How Have Washington-Tel Aviv Ties Taken a Turn for Worse?
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Unwelcome Guest of White House: How Have Washington-Tel Aviv Ties Taken a Turn for Worse?

Wednesday 29 July 2026
difference comes down to this: Trump has the ability to start a war, but no appetite to sustain one given the heavy political and economic toll. Netanyahu, by contrast, may need the crisis to continue for his own political reason, but without US backing, he cannot drive it forward. Shift of Washing ...
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Hezbollah’s New Strategy for Managing Potential Tensions with New Syria
Analysis

Hezbollah’s New Strategy for Managing Potential Tensions with New Syria

Thursday 6 August 2026 ،
differences with Hezbollah, has refused to rule out dialogue altogether.  In a televised interview in June, asked whether he would sit at the same table with Hezbollah, he replied: “If it serves Lebanon and guarantees Syria’s interests, why not?” He added: “We have a p ...
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An Arbaeen of Vengeance
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An Arbaeen of Vengeance

Friday 7 August 2026 ،
differences, around the common causes of justice, dignity, and resistance against oppression. Vengeance for the martyred leader One of the most striking features of this year's Arbaeen was the prominent rallying cry for avenging the martyred leader of Iran Sayyed Ali Khamenei, woven seamlessly ...
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc
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Mecca Agreement: Seeking Security in Mirage of a Sunni Bloc

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
differences, divergent priorities, and geopolitical rivalries among Riyadh, Ankara, and Islamabad. For all these reasons, the Mecca agreement for now looks less like the birth of a new Islamic NATO and more like a political signal, a show of convergence in the face of regional security crises. And ...
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?
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Big Absentee of Mecca Agreement: Why Did Egypt not Join Saudi Defense Pact?

Saturday 8 August 2026 ،
differences with the new bloc and cannot align itself to structure that harms Muslim unity. Alwaght- The trilateral defense pact among Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed recently in Mecca comes as the security crises and war in West Asia have eroded the regional countries' trust in the US ...
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?
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Iraq Disarming Project: End of a Security Order or Start of Home Confrontation?

Tuesday 11 August 2026 ،
differences and rally against government. At that point, the problem would cease to be about disarming a few militias, and become a structural crisis in Iraq's political order itself. So, the most important government tool will very likely be sowing division among integratable and unintegratabl ...
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Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?
Analysis

Is Beijing Unseating Washington in West Asia?

Monday 31 August 2026 ،
differences over Chinese access to sensitive technologies, drones, and communication infrastructure have caused tensions between the UAE and US several times. That is why Emirates moved to buy Chinese equipment. Earlier, it had received a batch of China's Wing Loong II drones, and has talked to ...
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Saudi Arabia Vs. Yemen: End of No-peace, No-war Game
Analysis

Saudi Arabia Vs. Yemen: End of No-peace, No-war Game

Monday 14 September 2026 ،
differences between the two sides in recent years comes down to the gap between tactical and strategic victory. A party may seize territory at a given moment, repel an attack, or destroy a military target, but strategic victory only comes when the balance of power itself shifts. From this vantage p ...
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?
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Peshmerga Unification Project: End of a Partisan Military or Start of Redefining Kurdistan Region’s Power?

Tuesday 22 September 2026 ،
differences. It is noteworthy that the Peshmerga structure has for decades been more than just a military force; it has formed part of the power architecture of the Kurdistan region’s two dominant parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK). That v ...
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Elections in Land of Crisis: Netanyahu, Opposition, and Architecture of Israeli Future
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Elections in Land of Crisis: Netanyahu, Opposition, and Architecture of Israeli Future

Thursday 24 September 2026 ،
difference from what is coming out of the current polls. That is why, until the final lists and electoral alliances take shape, no single poll, or even several, can offer a definitive picture of the next Knesset's composition or the government that follows. But behind the statistical discrepan ...

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Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Commemorating the 36th anniversary of the passing of Imam Khomeini (RA), the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran.